Stani is grinning, while carrying fifty pounds of bonobo (five) plus a baby gorilla that is high-tailing it down Stani's leg, because she didn't like the others. In 1996, at the request of the Ministry of Environment, I flew to Bukavu to pick up a gorilla confiscated from poachers in the Kahuzi-Biega Park.The young gorilla was a female named Kidole (for "finger," because she had a white digit) and we hoped that she would socialize with the bonobos. However, they did not get along. Kidole had multiple health issues and unfortunately, she succumbed to hepatitis after ten weeks.
Photo by D. Messinger
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